Five For Fraturday (Freebies)

Happy weekend! I am so happy to have a break. My class is exhausting this year. I am pulling out all kinds of tricks from my hat, and I am still searching for something that will work. I am linking up with Casey from Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five For Friday.

One

We began bats this week, and of course I didn’t take a single picture. Our story for the week was Stellaluna, a class favorite. We brainstormed what we already know about bats, or what we think we know.

I teach them about misconceptions. As we read more informational text about bats, we may throw out some facts that were misconceptions. I have a laminated misconception poster in my class. Click below to grab yours.

Two

We had our fall festival at school. The kids love it, including my son.

I thought it would be fun to interpret my son’s thoughts about the Harvest fair:

Now here are my thoughts:

And yes there was a melt down last night when one of his high quality toys he won broke. Ha!

Three

My name is Renee. I am addicted to cute erasers.

They are great for making math stories. We made made eraser math stories in small groups last week, and now they will go into a math tub for next week.

Comments

I know how you feel, my class this year is SUPER chatty. I am having to pull out all of my tricks just to get them to focus for more than five minutes! Mine are starting to settle in…I hope your's do soon! Have a great weekend!

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